How do your users actually use your application or website? Jerry Nixon welcomes Rahul Bagaria to the show as they help answer that question by introducing us to Application Insights, a new service offered in Microsoft Azure with ties to Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio Online. Learn how you…

This video blog illustrates how to use the Bing Developer Assistant Visual Studio plugin to easily find code samples, code snippets and search the internet when working in Visual Studio. The Visual Studio plugin can be downloaded and installed from the following links: Bing Developer Assistant for…

In this episode, Robert is joined by Scott Klein, host of the Data Exposed show. Scott shows us the SQL Server Data Tools in Visual Studio and demonstrates some scenarios when you can use those rather than leaving Visual Studio and using external tools such as SQL Server Management Studio.

Did you know you can create your own Visual Studio Start Pages (MSDN)? When that capability first came it, it was all the rage (well, kind of) to create custom start pages. Now, it seems to be pretty rare, so when I saw this project I knew I had to share it with you all. BetterStartPageThis is a…

Michael H.C. Cummings is back with an outstanding getting started guide on creating Universal apps/games with OGRE. He walks you through every step, from getting the OGRE source, building it, creating the Universal projects to the final build and run... Here's a couple times we've previously…

Jerry Nixon welcomes Unni Ravindranathan and Hari Menon from the Visual Studio Client Tools team as they discuss the recently announced changes, improvements and future of the WPF platform. For more information click here [1:59] Let’s recap some of the major announcements that were made during…

When you do a Find in Files (CTRL+SHIFT+F), by default the output displays the file path which can fill up the results window. Did you know you can use a registry key to customize the output of your search? Just create a string value in the registry called "Find result format" put…

Today's Visual Studio Extension is one that can and will come in handy and is a must tool belt have... Sometimes you've got an assembly, but no PDB or Source, and you just need to peek at how it works. Years ago, we highlighted the open source decompiler ILSpy, I spy with my little eye... ILSpy.…